Kennisnet (translated from Dutch as ''Knowledge Net'', previously Kennisnet Ict op school) is a Dutch public (semi-governmental) organization dedicated to ICT-innovation for primary and secondary education and vocational training. Kennisnet provides educational content and

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to teachers, pupils and parents. Kennisnet also stimulates the use of

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in educational processes by providing technical and practical support for several innovative educational aids. Kennisnet is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Kennisnet provided hosting and bandwidth for fifty

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servers from June 2005 to 2009, Wikimedia Selects EvoSwitch; accessed February 26, 2012 located at SARA in the

Science Park Amsterdam __NOTOC__ Amsterdam Science Park is a science park in the Oost borough of Amsterdam, Netherlands with foci on physics, mathematics, information technology and the life sciences. The 70 hectare (175 acre) park provides accommodations for science, ...

Davindi

Davindi was a

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for searching the

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Kennisnet database. The name is a pun on

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's surname and the Dutch word ''vind'' which means ''find'' in English. It did not crawl the internet, but only gave search results which are vetted by Davindi editors. Apart from text documents, also videos images and sound files could be found. The search engine also gave results from other educational sources such as Kennislink. Davindi gave results from more than 50,000 sources related to primary and secondary education, vocational education and adult education.

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